Changing the Face of Science
Shamika Murray ’14 was a high-achieving science student from a big public high school in Philadelphia. But soon after arriving on Mayflower Hill she learned that Colby academics were at a whole new...
View ArticleQ&A with David A. Greene, Colby's 20th President
David A. Greene, who has worked in leadership roles at Brown University, Smith College, and the University of Chicago, will take office at Colby July 1. He will be joined on Mayflower Hill by his wife...
View Article1,000 Miles Alone Across the Arctic
Superhiker Kristin Gates '10 takes wolves, high water, and tainted food in stride
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The Kingdom of Golf in America The Kingdom of Golf in AmericaBy Richard J. \"Pete\" Moss (history emeritus)University of Nebraska Press (2013) Starting in 1915, Charles Beach and a few friends launched...
View ArticleWinifred Tate Ponders the Resilience of Colombian Women
Anthropologist Winifred Tate considers the ways Colombian women work and survive in a place steeped in conflict
View ArticleBridging Jewish Communities
Rabbi Rachel Isaacs links Colby and Waterville, bringing Jewish students and local residents together.
View ArticleRowing with the World's Best
Rower Steve Whelpley set out to become one of the world’s best—and succeeded.
View ArticleOuting the NYPD's Surveillance of Muslims
New book coauthored by Matt Apuzzo '00 reveals spying that scrutinized the law abiding and missed real terrorists.
View ArticlePassing the Test
Real-life accident challenges COOT leaders with worst-case wilderness scenario
View ArticleFor First-Gens, Ways To Be "Their Whole Selves"
One first-generation college student at Colby was perplexed when a roommate told him parents were responsible for paying for students’ books. Another student looks for a familiar place to take a break...
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Let the Water Hold Me DownMichael Spurgeon \'92Ad Lumen Press (2013) When you’re witness to the beginning of a revolution and your future wife serves lasagna to the guerillas, you know you have...
View ArticleSmashing the Cycle of Poverty
Patricia Marshall reveals her past to help disadvantaged students have a future
View ArticleWhat's On Your Mind?
Professor Erin Sheets studies how Facebook really makes us feel—and finds that it isn’t always better
View ArticleQ&A: Associate Professor John Turner
Professor John Turner on teaching Islam at Colby and why we all need to know more
View ArticleInto the Forests of Gondar
Colby researchers plumb the secrets of Ethiopia's ancient "church forests"
View ArticleWhere There Now is a Campus, There Once Were Farms
Editor’s note: Professor Charles Ferguson (Associate Professor of French, emeritus) spent 28 years in classrooms on the Colby campus before retiring in 1995. In 2008 he took a very different look at...
View ArticleOn the Golf Course, Father and Son Come to Grips with Life and Each Other
Walking with Jack: A Father’s Journey to Become His Son’s CaddieDon J. Snyder ’72Doubleday (2013) No one can accuse Don J. Snyder ’72 of living an unexamined life. Novelist, nonfiction writer, and...
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Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary MexicoBen Fallaw (Latin American studies)Duke University Press (2013) The Mexican Revolution was intended to set off a wave of agrarian and education...
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